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Musical Theme (Oriental Symphony)

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1912 - 1913
20th Century
39 3/8 x 31 3/4 in. (100.03 x 80.65 cm)

Marsden Hartley (Lewiston, Maine, 1877 - 1943, Ellsworth, Maine)

Object Type: Painting

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Samuel Lustgarten, Sherman Oaks, California

Accession Number: -.1267

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

American Modernism: The First Wave/ Paintings from 1903–1933 the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University , 10/4/1963 - 11/10/1963
Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange Rose Art Museum and Rhode Island School of Design , 2/15/1967 - 3/31/1967
Early Modern Art , 9/22/2001 - 12/9/2001
The Rose at Brandeis: Works from the Collection , 10/29/2009 - 6/20/2010
Regarding Painting Rose Art Museum , 10/7/2010 - 6/12/2011
Collecting Stories , 10/27/2011 - 12/9/2012
Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings , 4/5/2014 - 11/30/2014
Passage Rose Art Museum , 9/7/2018 - 12/9/2018
Off the Wall Rose Art Museum , 2/10/2021 - 4/2/2021
re:collection: Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum Rose Art Museum , 6/25/2021 - 6/16/2024

Provenance History

Owner Name: Alfred Stieglitz
Place: New York
Dates: 1913 - 1916
Owner Name: John Quinn
Place: New York
Dates: 1916 - 1924
Owner Name: Estate of John Quinn
Place: New York
Dates: 1924 - 1927
Owner Name: American Art Association Auction
Role: Auction
Place: New York
Dates: 1927 - 1927
Owner Name: Samuel Lustgarten
Place: Chicago, IL and Sherman Oaks, CA
Dates: 1927 - 1952
Owner Name: Rose Art Museum
Place: Waltham, MA
Dates: 1952

Bibliography List

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz. My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915 University of South Carolina Press. Columbia, SC, 2002
Page Number: 120, Figure Number: Plate 2
Brougher, Kerry, Olivia Mattis, Jeremy Strick, Ari Wiseman, and Judith Zilczer. Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900. (Thames & Hudson) Hirshhorn Museum, MOCA LA, February 6-September 11, 2005. ill. p. 36. Thames & Hudson. 2005
Page Number: 36
Donna Cassidy. Cassidy, Donna. Jazz: An American Muse, Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, May 4- July 30, 2000, ill. p. 11 fig 9. {object was not lent to this exhibition-catalogue use only} 2000
Guggenheim (NY) The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989: Jan 30 - Apr 19, 2009 2009
and . Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange 1967
Figure Number: 18
Hirshhorn Museum and MOCA LA, Visual Music, Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900, 2/6/05-9/11/05 2005
Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany, “Kunstwelten im Dialog,” 11/5/99-3/19/2000 1999
PBS, American Masters, Alfred Steiglitz, The Eloquent Eye (see registrars shelf) 2001

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